Love conspiracies? Here are a few of the better ones involving music

May 1, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

If you’ve been keeping up with world weirdness, you may have heard the recent theory that Mark David Chapman did not assassinate John Lennon. Just as with JFK in 1963, Lennon was shot not in the back but in the front by a second gunman.

Yes, Chapman admitted to shooting Lennon outside the Dakota on the evening of Dec. 8, 1980. There were witnesses. Yoko knows Chapman killed her husband. Case closed, right?

Not according to British author David Whelan. He’s spent the last three years investigating Lennon’s murder and has come to the conclusion that someone other than Chapman is responsible and will lay everything out in an upcoming documentary and book entitled Gimme Some Truth: The Assassination of John Lennon. Here are the basics.

Keep reading. And there are a lot more music-related conspiracies to talk about.

Alan Cross

is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 40+ years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, from David Bowie and U2 to Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters. He’s also known as a musicologist and documentarian through programs like The Ongoing History of New Music.

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